Her novels, Out After Dark and Fall, have already established Kai Maristed as an original voice, one of clarity and terseness, a muscular language (Los Angeles Times Book Review on Fall). Now, with this splendid collection of nine stories, she displa...
"wherever you may be you are always a stranger and a pilgrimÂ..."Â -- Thomas a KempisKaethe Shalk has married into a family of disappearing German aristocracy. Having spent years in East Berlin, devoted, after her fashion, to an American father himse...
A young American couple is touring Germany with their two children. During an Alpine hike, the parents, eager to hunt mushrooms down the slope, settle their drowsy children to nap in the glade. When the kids awake, the sun has set and they are alone,...